Archive for December 2008

Kinesis keyboards and GNOME

Randall Wood wrote a decent article about about customising Gnome for using Kinesis keyboards.

Bbrringg, bbbrrringgg: old phones, new ears.

Power was out this morning.  It’s still out at home but I’m in the office where it’s warm and dry and happy…  ok, let’s not gloat.  Anyway, when the power goes out, we pull the digital, cordless phone base-station off the kitchen wall and plug in an old, analogue, single-line, business telephone.  And it works.  […]

Hello world!

Yep, this is the first post. Sorta. I’ve installed and configured WordPress here on our family site so I use it instead of using blogger.  I imported all the posts from my blogger.com site, too.  So, this is the first post *here* at the new home.

About my flock… of chickens…

What I wrote as a comment at http://vituperation.com/ I ordered 35 cornish X from Welp Hatchery two months ago. They specialize in Cornish X and have the best prices I found – spoke with twelve hatcheries. Anyway, they sent me 40. Two died in the first day or so – normal attrition rate, I think. […]